Knows Quote by William Empson Download Open image “It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.” — William Empson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Knows Refined Seems
When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
It's not something a lot of people would think, but I constantly put things off. — Whitney Port Copy Share Image
When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process. — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
It's not what I don't know that bothers me - it's what I do know and don't do! — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms.… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
It's not what you're cleared to know, it's what you're cleared not to know. — Covert Comic Copy Share Image
The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
“Villanelle It is the pain, it is the pain endures. Your chemic beauty burned my muscles through. Poise of my hands reminded me of… — William Empson Copy Share Image
Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it… — William Empson Copy Share Image
“Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. What is there to be or do? What's become of me or you? Are we… — William Empson Copy Share Image
“Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and… — William Empson Copy Share Image
The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. — William Empson Copy Share Image
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and… — William Empson Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been. — William Empson Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
